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Unions Mark MLK's Death With National Protests
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed more than four decades ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights. Martin Luther King III joined about 1,000 marchers in Atlanta and thousands more across the country to support workers' rights on the anniversary of his father's assassination. King was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting a black municipal sanitation workers strike April 4, 1968, when he was shot to death on a hotel balcony. Andy Manis, AP Union ...
Wis. Judge Halts Governor's Union Law, at Least for Now
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, halting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plans - at least temporarily - to cut most public workers' pay and strip them of most of their union rights. Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a declaration stating in no uncertain terms that the collective bargaining law that led to weeks of large protests at the state Capitol had not taken effect, contradicting Republican arguments that it had because a state office published it online. Hours later, Walker ...
Ohio House to Vote on Collective Bargaining Limits
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio bill that would limit collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers was poised for a vote before the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday, one of its final hurdles before the measure goes to the governor. The vote comes a day after a legislative committee approved changes to make the bill even tougher for unions. Met with chants of "Shame on you!" from nearby protesters, the GOP-backed revisions greased the measure for what was expected to be smooth passage in the House. The Senate, also controlled by Republicans, narrowly passed the bill on a 17-16 ...
Wisconsin DA Contends Union Law Not in Effect
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin prosecutor insists the state's contentious new collective bargaining law is not in effect. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne has filed a lawsuit alleging Republican lawmakers violated the state's open meetings law during debate on the plan. Judge Maryann Sumi has blocked the secretary of state from publishing the law, the last step before it can take effect. But the Senate's Republican leader on Friday asked the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau to post the law on the Legislature's website. Republicans say that move amounts to publication and the ...
Wisconsin Union Law Published Despite Court Order
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin officials couldn't agree Friday about whether an explosive law taking away nearly all public worker collective bargaining rights was about to take effect after a nonpartisan legislative bureau published it despite a court order blocking implementation. The Legislative Reference Bureau took the action at 3:15 p.m. Friday, sending confused lawmakers and legal experts scrambling to determine what's next for the measure that has brought waves of chaos to the state since it first was proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Legislative Reference Bureau director Steve ...
Wisconsin Judge Puts Hold on Law Limiting Union Bargaining
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyHold everything. That Wisconsin law limiting the collective bargaining rights of public workers -- the one that brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol in Madison -- has been blocked from taking effect by a county judge. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday barring the Wisconsin secretary of state from publishing the law -- which would allow it to go into effect, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Sumi said she wanted time to consider a legal challenge, arguing that a legislative committee violated the state's open ...
Judge Blocks Wisconsin's Contentious Union Law
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- The monthlong saga over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to drastically curb collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin took a turn Friday that could force a dramatic rebooting of the entire legislative process. A judge temporarily blocked the law from taking effect, raising the possibility that the Legislature may have to vote again to pass the bill that attracted protests as large as 85,000 people, motivated Senate Democrats to escape to Illinois for three weeks and made Wisconsin the focus of the national fight over union rights. But Walker's spokesman and ...
Wisconsin Unions Rush Deals Ahead of Bargaining Law
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- School boards and local governments across Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with unions before a new law takes effect and erases their ability to collectively bargain over nearly all issues other than minimal salary increases. The law doesn't go into effect until the day after Secretary of State Doug La Follette publishes it and it doesn't supersede contracts already in place, fueling unions' desire to reach new deals quickly. La Follette said Monday that he will delay publication until the latest day possible, March 25, to give local governments as much time as ...
Wisconsin Governor Signs Bargaining Bill, but Wider Political War Looming
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed a controversial bill sharply limiting collective bargaining rights for public workers, but it will take months, maybe years, to sort out the winners and losers. Walker, a Republican who sought changes limiting the clout of unions, also rescinded the layoffs of 1,500 mid-level state employees who were threatened with job losses because of a budget crunch and a stalemate on the bargaining bill, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Walker said the reforms, which also demand larger pension and health care contributions from workers, will save $30 ...
Opinion: Labor's Last Stand
By not in system - AOL NewsProtests continue in Wisconsin, and around the country, over the threats to curtail bargaining rights and cut benefits of public-sector unions. But the wake-up call to labor has come late, and the targets of the protests are much too narrow to reverse labor's flagging course. Anti-labor Republicans are rightly emboldened to take on the public-sector unions, but their true impetus is hardly the low-turnout midterm elections that swept many of them into office. Instead, the decades-long success of anti-labor forces in crippling private-sector unionism, which now stands at less than 7 percent of ...
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